The list

I'm off to Vienna tomorrow to rejoin the parents and sister on their European escapades. A neat travelling quirk will have me in three countries in one day, for the third time (Netherlands-Slovakia-Austria. The other two were Italy-Belgium-Netherlands and France-Belgium-Netherlands). It also will give me a chance to add a few more countries to "the list". It is obviously not the best metric of how well-travelled a person is, but here is my country collection (in chronological order):

Been there, done that:
1. Canada: born and raised, of course
2. USA: mostly North Dakota and Minnesota, but it still counts
3. Netherlands: second longest in terms of duration
4. Belgium: a few times, first in October 2004
5. Germany: November, December and February
6. Czech Republic: November '04
7. Italy: rang in the New Year under the shadow of Michaelangelo's David (well, a copy. Plus there are no shadows at night).
8. France: Most recent addition.

Coming soon:
9. Slovakia: Should be a fun 2 hours.
10. Austria: The hills are alive ...
11. Hungary: They have a commercial here on Dutch television that plays on the Hungary/hungry homonym, in English ("You must be Hungary people!"). I laugh.

Further possibilities
12. Norway
13. Sweden
14. Denmark
(Notice a theme there?)

Also, if you care, I put a few photos of Arcade Fire in Amsterdam, round 2, featuring Final Fantasy, on my flickr page (notice also the handy link to the right). 'Twas a good show. Certainly a much better opening act (who later added his mad-violin-skills to the band) than the last time, and a better venue.

UPDATE: The list, in map form.